10 Albums You Can Hear Now: Alkaline Trio, Mudhoney, Caveman, CHVRCHES, and More

It's Wednesday — you know the drill. Grab a pair of headphones and drift through the 10 ready-to-stream albums below.

1) Alkaline Trio, My Shame Is True. "My Shame Is True [is] a sabre-toothed improvement on 2010's back-to-basics, return-to-form effort This Addiction, as well as what sounds to be frontman and chief songwriter Matt Skiba’s most personal set to date." (via SPIN)

2) Major Lazer, Lazer Strikes Back Vol. 3. "The tropical-electro outfit has shared the third and final volume in their Lazer Strikes Back EP series. This time, Dutch house producer Vato Gonzalez, Los Angeles junglists CAMO UFOs, and big room wunderkind Avicii have remixed Major Lazer tunes. The free pack is rounded out by Major Lazer’s remix of No Doubt’s 'Settle Down.'" (via FACT)

3) Caveman, Caveman. "Occasionally recalling a more languid incarnation of the Shins... Caveman smartly weaves in new-wave touches for shading, alongside hooks that linger without ever becoming overbearing. What Caveman's self-titled second album lacks in overt grabbiness, it gains in inviting, atmospheric warmth; this is a band that, only two albums into its career, already understands the art of the slow burn and the subtle build." (via NPR)

8) Pick a Piper, Pick a Piper. "The eight-track effort blends watery, disembodied grooves and shimmering atmospherics with tight-wristed percussion and guest vocals (from members of the Ruby Suns, Enon and Brainiac, Born Ruffians, and Braids) that also keep your feet fixed firmly on the ground." (via SPIN)

9) Cold War Kids, Dear Miss Lonelyhearts. "Well-tailored, drum-heavy tracks... offset Willett's sometimes-mournful, sometimes-elated but always haunting voice... The album's title track is an especially well-paced, almost elegiac masterwork that sounds like a slightly less 'post'-rock take on Explosions in the Sky."(via Huffington Post)

10) Lil B, P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thug). "At 27 tracks, it’s a whopping 97 minutes, and upon first listen it’s one of B’s more gem-packed releases in recent memory. Early super-standouts: the introspective 'Complex Hate Crimes' and 'Giving Up,' and the slow-dancing 'Marry Me.'" — The FADER (via DatPiff)